In maiden meditation, fancy-free. Yet marked I where the bolt of Cupid fell. It fell upon a little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love’s wound.
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Before milk-w... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free. Yet mark'd I where the bolt o... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Before I fell in love with words, with setting skies and singing birds— it wa... LANG LEAV Fell in love first, Fell in love quickly—Like I was pushed. Fell in love next, Fell... KAMAND KOJOURI Once upon a time I fell in love Lost myself And find another one. ARZUM UZUN is where I first/ fell in love/ with unreality" pg. 35// A Coney Island of the Mind LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI I don’t have any fancy story, about the way we fell in love. It was that one awkward mov... JASLEEN KAUR GUMBER Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love. It did not end well. LAINI TAYLOR William Shakespeare: 'Close up this din of hateful decay, decomposition of your witches' plot! You t... GARETH ROBERTS I fell in love and then I became love. KAMAND KOJOURI I had never had a piece of toast Particularly long and wide, But fell upon the sanded floor,... JAMES PAYN Just now the lilac is in bloom,
All before my little room;
And in my flower-beds, I think,... RUPERT BROOKE Little Alice fell d o w n the hOle, bumped her head and br... LEWIS CARROLL In recent weeks it has come to my attention that many caravans have met with disaster; they have not... JONATHAN STROUD Little Maiden Encounters Fear Deepest regions walked she there little maiden sweet a... MUSE In the center stood a marble alter, where a kid in a toga was doing some sort of ritual in front of ... RICK RIORDAN Rain turned to ice, and lightning splintered, it spliced the black sky, it seeped a bright... A. LEE BROCK And when he fell in whirlwind, he went down
As when a lordly cedar, green with boughs,
Goe... EDWIN MARKHAM Like two stars in the depths of the sky This gravity is just irresistible We spin around e... JUSTIN WETCH I sort of fell." "Percy! Six hundred and thirty feet? RICK RIORDAN Jumbled appeared the messages, Nothing was sure or clear; Till I fell in love with Him- NEELAM SAXENA CHANDRA THAT crazed girl improvising her music. Her poetry, dancing upon the shore, Her soul... W.B. YEATS I saw thee once - only once - years ago: I must not say how many - but not many. It was a ... EDGAR ALLAN POE And many strokes, though with a little axe, Hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I saw the sunset-colored sands, The Nile like flowing fire between, Where Rameses stares... SARA TEASDALE Looking back few friends had we but I've got him and he's got me. And when the golden minu... ROD MCKUEN The dreamer in her Had fallen in love with me and she did not know it. That moment the dre... TED HUGHES The Rider A boy told me if he roller-skated fast enough his loneliness c... NAOMI SHIHAB NYE The maiden with her wheel of old Sat by the fire to spin, While lightly through her carefu... MADELINE S. BRIDGES Heavy is the head that wears the crown William Shakespeare CHARMAINE J. FORDE Just let me wait a little while longer, Under your window in the quite snow. Let me stand ... POLLY SHULMAN You shall go with me, newly-married bride, And gaze upon a merrier multitude. White-armed Nual... WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS I do not take orders from women.” “My men do not have a similar problem.” Lada lifted a h... KIERSTEN WHITE Why shall I speak of the damage of love? When it rejuvenates me just as much In love... ZUBAIR AHSAN Why shall I speak of the damage of love? When it rejuvenates me just as much In love... ZUBAIR AHSAN When did you first fall in love?" "I think, I first fell in love when I was in fifth... SAIBER If you’ve managed to do one good thing, the ocean doesn’t care. But when Newton’s ap... ELLEN BASS I flew too near the sun and my wax wings fell off pg. 62// A Coney Island of the Mi... LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI People where you live," the little prince said, "grow five thousand roses in one garden... yet they ... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY I fell into a deep sleep tucked in that little cocoon, a deeper sleep than I might of had in years.<... JAMES PATTERSON The little boy was looking for his voice. (The king of the crickets had it.) In a drop of ... FEDERICO GARCíA LORCA Love. Because of you, in gardens of blossoming Flowers I ache from the perfumes of s... PABLO NERUDA Flower in the crannied wall, I pluck you out the crannies, I hold you here, root and all, in m... ALFRED LORD TENNYSON There are moments in every relationship that define when two people start to fall in love. A fi... COLLEEN HOOVER Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell. Though all things foul would wear the brows... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE You know how it goes: at some point in your life, you fell in love with someone and... KAMAND KOJOURI And overpowered by memory Both men gave way to grief. Priam wept freely For man - killing ... HOMER A great hope fell You heard no noise The ruin was within. EMILY DICKINSON I don’t have any fancy story, about the way we fell in love. It was that one awkward mov... JASLEEN KAUR GUMBER Arise, arise, Riders of Théoden! Fell deeds awake, fire and slaughter! spear shall be sha... J.R.R. TOLKIEN American Wedding In america, I place my ring on your cock where it belon... ESSEX HEMPHILL Now, leave." All three boys slumped forward. Percy fell face-first into his pizza. "Perc... RICK RIORDAN But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft
Quenched in the chaste beams of the wat'ry moon,
And... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time, with a gift of tears; ... ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time, with a gift of tears;<... ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Fare well we call to hearth and hall Though wind may blow and rain may fall We must away e... J.R.R. TOLKIEN In alien lands I keep the body Of ancient native rites and things: I gladly free a little ... ALEXANDER PUSHKIN Come away, come away, Death, And in sad cypress let me be laid; Fly away, fly away, breath... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Will you accept me?" Fury "No. I'm here naked with you because all my clothes fell off by accid... SHERRILYN KENYON I don’t think that I’ve been in love as such Although I liked a few folk pretty well L... NEIL GAIMAN THE soul should always stand ajar, That if the heaven inquire, He will not be obliged to ... EMILY DICKINSON The Volunteer AT dawn, he said, I bid them all farewell, To go where bugles call and rifl... ELBRIDGE JEFFERSON CUTLER I fell like a celibate hustler A stained & sullied spirit... Halfway between freaky an... NEIL MACH The next thing I remembered was Reyes smiling down at me as the sun filtered into his apartment, his... DARYNDA JONES Backward we traveled to reclaim the day Before we fell, like Icarus, undone; All we find a... SYLVIA PLATH A song she heard Of cold that gathers Like winter's tongue Among the shadows It ... ROBERT FANNEY Catch me, Seth," she invited. He paused. "Faeries chase," he said, an then , with a flirta... MELISSA MARR Did I hurt you in the parking lot?" "No, m'lady. I fell, so I could put a tracker on your car."... ILONA ANDREWS That William Blake Who beat upon the wall Till Truth obeyed his call. WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS If seeing her an hour before her last Weak cough into all blackness I could yet Be held by... MERVYN PEAKE We have teeth and we have tails We have tails we have eyes We were here before you fell NEIL GAIMAN Cupid," Jason called, "where are you?" 'Where you least expect me,' Cupid answered. 'As love al... RICK RIORDAN Memory is a tenuous thing. . . . flickering glimpses, blue and white, like ancient,<... ELLEN HOPKINS Sebastian: YOU'RE Ragnor Fell the warlock? Magnus: Well, I'm certainly not Ragnor Fell the exot... CASSANDRA CLARE Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts! Unsex me here, And fill me from the crown ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE She stooped for a stone and dropped it down. 'Fancy being where that is now,' she said, p... W.W. JACOBS if a sheep eats bushes does it eat flowers too? a sheep eats whatever it finds even a flow... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY As I recall, I was still dressed when I fell asleep." "Just making sure you were comforta... KELLEY ARMSTRONG Tell me it's not true." He sighed. "Fine. It's not true." ... And yet... "Are yo... KATHLEEN PEACOCK Fairy Song Shed no tear! oh, shed no tear! The flower will bloom another year. Weep n... JOHN KEATS Nicholas: I know you, brother. You've been threatened with matrimonial pursuits before. Why are you ... DONNA MACMEANS From the drawer beside the sink Joe Chip got a stainless steel knife; with it he began systematicall... PHILIP K. DICK Sour Milk You can't make it turn sweet again. Once it was an innocen... DIANE WAKOSKI How . . .” Dalinar said. “You fell into a chasm!” “I fell face-first, sir,” Kaladin s... BRANDON SANDERSON Yet but three come one more. Two of both kinds make up four. Ere she comes curst and sad.<... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Then he pulled out a handgun and shot me in the chest. I was standing on the lawn and I fell. The bu... E. LOCKHART The mighty trojans fell, and so did i. A wooden horse you were not, yet in a pool of my own blo... ANURAG ANAND When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And When his win... KAHLIL GIBRAN I am a caged bird, rattling the bars of my cage, with furious flutterings, break my c... STEVEN JAMES I sometimes think about old tombs and weeds That interwreathe among the bones of kings Wit... MERVYN PEAKE Be to her, Persephone, All the things I might not be; Take her head upon your knee. S... EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY And life
definitely
doesn't want me To just let it
tell
<... COLLEEN HOOVER God spreads the heavens above us like great wings And gives a little round of deeds and days, W.B. YEATS For Liesel Meminger, the early stages of 1942 could be summed up like this: She became thirteen... MARKUS ZUSAK Fair flower, that dost so comely grow, Hid in this silent, dull retreat, Untouched thy honied... PHILIP FRENEAU Ah, yes! I wrote the 'Purple Cow' I'm sorry, now, I wrote it! But I can tell you anyhow, FRANK GELETT BURGESS O innocent victims of Cupid, Remember this terse little verse: To let a fool kiss you is stu... E. Y. HARBURG Yes, she was a scandal. Her brother simply didn’t know it. “I fell in the Serpentine t... SARAH MACLEAN There is a place where the sidewalk ends And before the street begins, And there the grass... SHEL SILVERSTEIN The minstrel fell but the foeman's chain could not break his proud soul under. The harp he lov... THOMAS MOORE
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Wanton in fullness, seek to hide themselves
In drops of sorrow. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Yet 'tis greater skill
In a true hate to pray they have their will;
The very devils cannot pla... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How use doth breed a habit in a man!
This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods,
I better brook t... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The miserable have no other medicine But only hope. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-w... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE